He did say the issue was putting a delay in the process. He said the legal teams were supposed to be getting the potential juror questionnaires back late last week to review them, but they now will have to wait until after Tuesday's hearing. He said the legal teams will go though the questionnaires to try to "figure out what the jurors are saying about the case, publicity and any predispositions they might have."

Will the issue allow for Thomas to continue representing Kilpatrick?

"I'm his lawyer now and I'll be his lawyer forever, as far as I'm concerned," Thomas replied.

Kilpatrick back in Detroit

Only Local 4 News was at the corner of Fort and Shelby streets to greet Kilpatrick as he walked into the federal courthouse last Wednesday morning.

Kilpatrick said, "Hey how are you doing?" to our crew but refused to answer any other questions.

"How does it feel to be back in Detroit?" Local 4 asked Kilpatrick.

Kilpatrick shook his head and his attorney said, "We're not making any comments today."

The disgraced former Mayor was dressed for the first official day of his corruption trial wearing a light colored suit, pink shirt and pink tie.

Rich McKinney shook Kilpatrick's hand as he was walking toward the courthouse.

McKinney made it clear he wasn't supporting Kilpatrick.

"I met him before on other business a while back. I don't like what politicians like him are doing to this country," McKinney said.

--Victor Mercado

Survey of jurors continuing

400 prospective jurors were at the federal court to fill out questionnaires. Both sides will go over the questionnaires once they are completed and will pick 80 of them to finalize later this month. On Sept. 6, those 80 will be called for traditional jury selection.

Twelve people eventually will be selected to decide if the former mayor was running a criminal enterprise with family and friends which included taking cash bribes, kick backs, vacations, private jets and more in exchange for getting contracts in the city.

Other defendants in the case include Kilpatrick's dad Bernard Kilpatrick, his childhood friend Bobby Ferguson and ex-Detroit City Water boss Victor Mercado.